[ScanIndiana] anyone got anything yet for the Mount ComfortAirshow this weekend?

[Bob Burns W9RXR]

At 08:10 PM 8/28/2007, Duane Mantick wrote:

>A Kudo that is deserved - the Army Sky Soldiers 4x Cobra team was 
>really pretty cool.  It was a VERY unique performance and set itself 
>apart from the rest.

Yes, that was a very impressive performance.

>I was also scouting around looking for folks with scanners and I 
>didn't see a single one.

I saw a couple of scanner listeners on Saturday.

For what it's worth, I tried listening to the Blue Angel frequencies 
on both days and just didn't get much. Their transmissions seemed to 
be very brief and somewhat cryptic. If I'm concentrating on the 
radio, I'm not watching the show, so I gave up on the radio.

>In fact, I was also surprised at how relatively unused the FRS/GMRS 
>channels were, either by show people or by spectators.

I don't know what the show staff was using, probably UHF itinerant 
channels (there are any number of radio shops ready to rent radios on 
the UHF itinerants to events like this). There was some ham radio 
activity on both 2m and 440. And all of the police and fire/EMS 
people were on MECA talkgroups.

>Used to have a heckuva time trying to have a couple minutes of open 
>channel at all - but I saw a LOT of
>cell phone usage, BOTH show people and spectators.

Cell phones are so ubiquitous that it's just natural for people to go 
that route rather than carrying another electronic device like an FRS 
radio. It seems like I see people using FRS for keeping track of 
younger kids, but as they get older, they get cell phones and the FRS 
radios end up on a garage sale table.

Bob...